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Federal (USV)

Private

Cornelius O'Connor

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Norwich, CT. He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company G, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 23 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded and captured in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was wounded again, on 7 May 1864 at Port Walthall Junction, VA, and was discharged at the end of his term of enlistment on 20 September 1864.

References & notes

His service from the Record,1 as Cornelius O'Conner. He's also on the casualty list in Major Ward's after-action report. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Death

Date not known; burial in Old Saint Michael's Cemetery, Pawcatuck, CT

Notes

1 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, p. 349 [AotW citation 30826]

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